Improvement in covered table-ware



H. VASSEUR.

Covered Table-Ware. N0.\58,l53. Patented Dec.22,l874.

THE GRAPHIC CO. PHOTO-Lukas & 44 PARK PLACE, N-Y- UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

HERMAN VASSEUR, OF WALLINGFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SIMPSON, HALL, MILLER & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN COVERED TABLE-WARE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,153, dated December 22, 1874; application filed October 15, 1874'.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMAN VASSEUR, of WVallingford, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Covered Table-Ware; and I- do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure l, a side view, and in Fig. 2 a top View.

This invention relates to an improvement in the construction of that class of dishes for table service which are provided with removable covers, with special reference to butterdishes, the object being to provide a means for holding the cover suspended over the dish while the dish is open; and it-consists in a vertical rod attached to the cover, and with a transverse bar near the top of the cover, the said rod extending up through a slot in a bail or loop which extends up from the dish over the cover, so that when the cover is raised the said transverse bar will pass up through said slot, and, being turned, will lie across said slot, and hold the cover suspended, as more fully hereinafter described.

A is the dish, the form of which or its use is no part of this invention; 13, the cover, of any desired shape to conform to the dish. From the dish a bail, G, (or may be a single post,) turning over the cover, with a slot,D, through which a rod, E, extends up from the cover, so that, by taking hold of the top of the rod, the cover may be lifted. Near the top of the cover, and on the rod, is a transverse bar, F, which, in lifting the cover, passes up through the slot D, and, when the bar is clear above the slot, the rod is turned to bring the bar F across the slot, and, there leaving it to rest, the cover will be supported until the rod is returned to bring the barinto line with the slot. Then the cover may be lowered to close the dish.

The bar and rod are represented as straight, but they may be made of other form more or less ornamented, it only being essential that the rod or bar, of whatever form, shall pass freely up through the slot, and, when turned, will support the cover.

The slot, in practice, is made as an ornament, and of various forms.

I claim In a covered dish the combination, with a support extending up over the dish, and haying a slot, 1), therein, of the rod E, and transverse bar F upon the cover,substantially as and for the purpose specified.

H. VASSEUR.

W'itnesses G. W. HULL, O. I. MARTIN. 

